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DISCLAIMER This announcement must be read in conjunction with the Tender Offer Memorandum. This announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum contain important information which should be read carefully before any decision is made with respect to the Offer. If you are in any doubt as to the contents of this announcement or the Tender Offer Memorandum or the action you should take, you are recommended to seek your own financial and legal advice, including in respect of any tax consequences. Any individual or company whose Existing Notes are held on its behalf by a broker, dealer, bank, custodian, trust company or other nominee or intermediary must contact such entity if it wishes to tender the Existing Notes to the Offer. None of the financial advisor, the tender agent or the Offeror makes any recommendation as to Offer.

OFFER AND DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTIONS Neither this announcement nor the Tender Offer Memorandum constitute an offer to buy or a solicitation of an offer to sell Existing Notes in any jurisdiction in which, or to or from any person to or from whom, it is unlawful to make such offer or solicitation under applicable securities laws or otherwise. The distribution of this announcement and the Tender Offer Memorandum in certain jurisdictions (in particular, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan) may be restricted by law. Persons into whose possession this announcement or the Tender Offer Memorandum comes are required by the Offeror to inform themselves about, and to observe, any such restrictions.

Non sono una "US Person" e non sono residente o ubicata negli Stati Uniti, nei suoi territori o possedimenti o in Canada, Australia e Giappone o in alcuna altra giurisdizione in cui sia illegale distribuire il presente comunicato. I am not a US Person and I am not located or resident in the United States, its territories and possession or in Canada, Australia or Japan or in any other jurisdiction where it is unlawful to distribute this announcement

Sono una "US Person" e sono residente o ubicata negli Stati Uniti, nei suoi territori o possedimenti o in Canada, Australia e Giappone o in altra giurisdizione in cui sia illegale distribuire il presente comunicato. I am a US Person and I am located or resident in the United States, its territories and possession or in Canada, Australia or Japan or in any other jurisdiction where it is unlawful to distribute this announcement